Galerie · Fine art on your desktop

Wheat Field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh

Under the Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte

Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Edwin Church

Now showing

Vincent van Gogh Dutch, 1853–1890

Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889

Oil on canvas

Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Galerie hangs a masterpiece on your desktop and changes it while you work. Everything it shows comes from the open-access collections of five museums — and, like any gallery worth visiting, it tells you what you are looking at.

Download on the Mac App Store

Free. Requires macOS 14 or later.

It knows what it is showing you

A wall label, in your menu bar. Click through for the artist, the date, the medium, and a link to the work on the museum's own site.

A Mac desktop showing Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville as wallpaper

The collection

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York
Art Institute of ChicagoChicago
RijksmuseumAmsterdam
Cleveland Museum of ArtCleveland
Paris MuséesParis

Every work is in the public domain, released through each museum's open access programme.

Included

Five museum collections: Public-domain works from the Met, the Art Institute, the Rijksmuseum, Cleveland and Paris Musées.
Rotation on your schedule: Every fifteen minutes, every hour, once a day — whatever you want to look at.
Focal-point cropping: Portrait works are cropped around the subject, not the centre of the canvas.
Every display: One wall or all of them.
Works offline: Images are cached, so the wall is never empty.
Quiet: A menu-bar icon and very little else. No accounts, no tracking, no telemetry.

Galerie+

Filter by artist: Monet, Renoir, Manet, Matisse, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Wright of Derby.
Filter by medium: Oil, watercolour, pastel, drawing, print.
Favourites: Keep the ones you love and rotate only through those.